No state could abridge those privileges or immunities, or deny any person due process or the equal protection of the law.

The evidence clearly shows that the city's police powers are not abridged in any manner and that the agreement is expressly subject to the remedies available to the city under the Omaha Municipal Code.

I have the right to free speech, for example, and you can ask me to apologize for anything I say that offends you, and that request would have no bearing on whether my freedom of speech was being abridged.

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Even more profoundly than that, it presents a case which illustrates the radical idea that, contrary to a rarely articulated tenet of Western philosophy, there are aspects of our minds and souls which are not abridgeable with will power.